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Corrine Wickens to complete analysis, book on LGBTQ young adult literature during her Senior Faculty Fellowship

September 23, 2024 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Coming of age in the ’80s as part of a “very Catholic” family located in a “white, conservative town just north of Indianapolis,” Corrine Wickens had yet to realize that she was a lesbian. That comprehension would surface in college, says Wickens,

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STEM Read Institute sparks educators

August 22, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Macy Gray’s journey as a teacher began at Mayatan Bilingual School, a non-profit in Honduras where she taught sixth-graders. When she returned to Illinois this summer to begin a new job this fall teaching sixth- and seventh-graders at Chicago’s Altus Academy, the

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